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Conference terri::cars_uk

Title:	Cars in the UK
Notice:	Please read new conference charter 1.70
Moderator:	COMICS::SHELLEYELD

Created:	Sun Mar 06 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2584
Total number of notes:	63384

12.0. "GIMMICKS" by RDGENG::MOXLEY (But Boss, this IS work-related) Fri Dec 11 1987 13:41

    I'd like to start a topic on the 'gimmicks' you find in car accessory
    shops..you know the sort of thing..
    
    "buy this product it will save you petrol/money/make your car faster"
    
    Or anything that is marketed as an innovative 'gimmick'.
    
    I have found one thats quite good. It supplies hot water to the
    washers via a jacket plumbed into the top rad hose.Not only does
    it supply hot water to the screen, but de-ices the bottle if its
    frozen up.
    
    Another thing I've tried is the  "Wheel Clean" disks, you put these
    inside the wheels and they (supposedly) stop brake dust going over
    the wheels..(useful for alloys, not much use to anything else).
    
    Has anyone else bought any 'gimmick' products if so, are they any
    good?
    
    Comments please

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
12.86		COMICS::WEGG	Some hard-boiled eggs and some nuts.	`Tue Jan 16 1990 14:47`	10
	Last November I got fed up with spending ten minutes each morning scraping the frost off the car windows. So I went to Halfords and bought a "Windscreen Frost Protector". It's amazing! It appears to be just a sheet of polythene with a rubber sucker at each end, so how it works I don't know. I put it in my boot six weeks back, and we haven't had a frost since. I wish I'd bought one years ago. Ian.
12.87	Re.86 Hahahahahahahaha !	CHEFS::KARVE	Shantanu Karve @REO (7)-830-4478	`Tue Jan 16 1990 14:51`	1

12.88		JC::CORNE	Artificially Intelligent	`Tue Jan 16 1990 15:23`	5
	If I get one and put it in my boot, will it keep me clear of frost too? I could put it in the greenhouse and save on the parafin! Jc ;-)
12.89	Mr Anderton IS "GOD".	SHAPES::STREATFIELDC	WIZARD STUFF	`Tue Jan 16 1990 15:29`	5
	Just, put it in the boot eh?, Nope, I cant see how it works either, sounds good though, I'll have to get one.
12.90	Amazement and the washer thingy	KURMA::LCOWAN		`Sat Aug 25 1990 04:47`	15
	Good grief, and I thought Digital was full of engineers........... Come on lads, use yer nappers...... lots of these things you've been talking about in this topic are just a case of common sense. As to the "Washer thingy", I had one of those on my mini Cooper in 1977, and unless you want to lag the wee flexible hosie to the washers, you'd be as well urinating on the windscreen (to be polite) for all the use the damn thing is. I found (in Scotland certainly, where the definition of snow is thick white stuff lying on the ground, not a thickish frost like you have in southern England) that by the time the water gets to the nozzle (if at all) it's almost at the dew point and the nozzles generally freeze up first anyway. Moral: use a decent anti-gel in the washer water, not Fairy liquid.